I’m a long time user of the Google keyword research tool, now called keyword planner, that has been integrated into the adwords tool. Since integrating with adwords, the tool has become increasingly hard to use and understand.
Today Richard (my coworker) showed me Google Trends, and boy do I love it! This is what I need as an organic girl. I do not work with PPC (paid ads) and sometimes I just quickly need to compare 2 keywords. From now on, I will make sure I use Google Trends:
example: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=958&geo=US-FL&q=vpk,pre-k